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Related: About this forumSt. Pete mayoral candidate Robert Blackmon: Social media posts 'do not reflect who I am'
Blackmon said in a statement Friday that he didnt know if each of the Facebook posts are accurate, but that they are inappropriate, shameful and embarrassing.ST. PETERSBURG Mayoral candidate and City Council member Robert Blackmon said circulating screenshots of Facebook posts he appeared to make with vulgar and disparaging remarks about women, Asians and tenants do not reflect who I am today, what I stand for or how I will conduct myself as St. Petersburgs next mayor.
The posts include several references to women as a bitch and three generations of women, including a 3-year-old, as sluts. They also included comments about Asian people and made light of removing tenants from a building.
Blackmon, 32, said in a statement Friday that he didnt know if each of the Facebook posts are accurate, but that they are inappropriate, shameful and embarrassing. He characterized the circulation of the posts as repeated threats to his campaign.
This is a sad, desperate attempt by my opponents who are unnerved by the recent poll numbers reflecting my momentum, and by a former candidate for City Council with an axe to grind, the statement said. These Facebook posts appear to be from years ago, while Ken Welchs characterization of former Mayor Rick Baker as a massa was from just last year, during his 20th year in elected office.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/elections/2021/08/07/st-pete-mayoral-candidate-robert-blackmon-social-media-posts-do-not-reflect-who-i-am/
Interesting that the entire article never mentions that Blackmon is a registered Republican.
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St. Pete mayoral candidate Robert Blackmon: Social media posts 'do not reflect who I am' (Original Post)
Zorro
Aug 2021
OP
May have not mentioned party because the race is technically nonpartisan nt
AZSkiffyGeek
Aug 2021
#3
niyad
(118,050 posts)1. The guy is 32. How many years ago could they have been? And what, and when, was
his implied epiphany, and what has he done sine to repair the harm and damage of those disgusting posts? (And don't all face book entries have time/date stamps?
Scrivener7
(52,108 posts)2. Republiqans always say that the things they say don't represent them.
AZSkiffyGeek
(12,298 posts)3. May have not mentioned party because the race is technically nonpartisan nt
bahboo
(16,755 posts)4. well um, yes they do...fuck you, asshole....